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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7. 1931,
THE COST OF SPEED. devico wers exhibited. The large Alpine tour in a two-seater Jowelt GREATER COMFORT. majority of these appliances were without experienemy toe slightest;
In the their
100 Per Cent. on Ordinary Shares.
VARIOUS NOTES AND
ITEMS.
in
typo; that is.
to say, they named By making 198 journeyings they conquered allt Cars with Independent
bead-lamp beams non-dazzting yet principal passes of the Dolomites Butllesently elicetive to provide a and roached the hignest point in nafe driving light. Many and Europe to which a car can be. varied
cans takon the summit of the famous the ways and means forbere for bringing this about. The most Stelvio Pass, 9,055 ft. The Jowett practical to the lay eye, says one slogan, "The Little Engine With report, took the form of polished, a Big Puli," te amply justified by curvel, motal shades, which fitted the record of this journey.
E
Wheel Springs.
OUTLOOK FOR 1932.
The motor-car with individual
en the front of the headlamps and 18-mile long nocent of the Stelvio wheel springs, which allowa cach All motorists are interested projected forwards several inches Pass was accomplished after three wheel to rise and fall independent economy mensures to-day. It is in such a way that the eyes of miles in top gour, seven mites fuy when encountering uneven road Het generally realised that fast approaching drivers would be pro-second and eight miles in button,
The
petrol
drive
front
runs cause more wear of brakes, teeted. In three or four other the whole climb being completed surfaces, has arrived, writes a
On home motoring correspondent. more strain on the chassis, more cases
mechanical con-in approximately 1% hra. mare cases simple
Only wear of the tyres-in fact more trivances of this
kind were
in one stop was made, and that
Two such models made their wear of every part; in addition evidence, but the majority of per- min. duration, when three constant acceleration and decelara-manently, non-dazzling lamps on of water vero bat in the ve hater bow to the public in mall week. tion require mora petrol than keep ploved elaborate optical tricks to and a quart of oil in the sump One Is the British now B.S.A. Hight jg up an cren speed. The idea obtain the necessary shallow flat- This was the only occasion during car of 8 h.p. with a frant wheel-
and independent of cutting down speed may be topped beam, the line of attack the tour that the cooling water springe, The other is the now repellant to many of the more sometimes being the reflector, boiled, although the passes sealed French Derby car of 3 h.p. with aporting of car owners, but they sometimes the front glass and involved a total climb of nearly
a four-cylinder engine and B should appreciate that, when it sometimes
the bulb.
80,000 ft.
chassin incorporating a new comes to a long run, the man who
principle of front wheel drive and natendy 35 m.p.h. to 40 One of the most spectacular of h. without wasting time on the ideas took the form of twin
consumption; independent rear springing. unnecessary stops often gets to his headlamp glasses separated by a averaged over the entire tour, WIK
These rivals in front wheel destination just as soon as the small
space into which coloured at the rate of 37.7 m.p.g., and the erratic driver who, for no appar-liquid could be introduced like the brakes had to be adjusted only drives, and independent wheel view at tho Used for ent reason, covers several miles meat in a sandwich.
once in spite of the great amount pringing were on lasses, this idea of work they had to do on the private car exhibition, which open- flat out and then potters along at headlamp
need at Olympla en Oct. 15. They a comparative crawl for the next enables the driver with the aid of descent of the Alpine Passes were staged in their stripped few miles, wasting n certain a small pump to make his head. The story of the trip denies in un- amount of time in addition in the lamps innocuous to other road measured terms the popular belief chassis form and with two-seator
users while, used for the wind that British cars are unsuitable and saloon coachwork. screen, it would enable him to for the stiffest continental tourlag. Another French ear of low protect himself against the glare Jowott, with ita 907 c.c. two- Another way in which many of the lamps of other cars.
heavy-oil using engine for its car on the market, being power unit. drivers make their motoring more the manual anti-dazzle devicester engine, is the lowest rating has adopted the Diesel -
This car, Le Zebre, expensive is in their treatment of which were on view the majority rated at only 7 h.p. (£7 tax). That will be exhibited at the Paris
capable of successfully Automobile Bales. A considerable caused the headlamp beams to be it time elapses after
ier starting up a A dipped, and in some cases deflect-accomplishing such a remarkable will be the French edition of the engine,
England,ed to the left as well, when the Journey is a striking testimony to Austin Seven the Resengart-to even in before tho
switch, the its clever design and staunch con-appear also as a small six-cylinder lubrication system driver operated a becomes fully effective, the pistons favourite plan being to use twin-struction.
cylinder walla belug starved flament bulbs in which one fila- until the engine begins to warm ment afforded the normal driving In the competition of enginej
It should be obvious from light and the other the anti-dazzle design, the side-valve motor has this that anything but the most fight. gentle treatment during the first
form of unnecessary stops.
a cold engine.
cold
of
18
*
*
The
Of
is
108.95
Averaging 109,13
for fon
Thero algo
Fear of 1097 c.c. capacity, rated at
11 h.p., or 9 h.p. French rating.
Front wheel drives, Independent
is
gadgeta
that
regained the championship once wheel springing, and small Diesel- three miles is bound to It is expected, of course, that more in the "Baby" Class H 760 engined enra open up a new phase. cause ranid piston and cylinder before long there will be official .. category. It is also a British in motoring for 1932. wear. The golden rule.
is to treat control of headlamps, and draft victory, as Mrs. Gwenda Stewart, old engine as though it were riculations are .A.C. hoped Austin Seven on the Montlhery motorists have to provide, on their
in fact, already in wife of Colonel Stewart, drove
record making
super-charged Show. IL by re All existence. running new and required these things seem unimportant in the demonstration at Cambridge' track near Paria, BCR to cars which teach the motor manu- themselves, and so in fact they are, to show the Ministry of Transport, track but it is attention to small details that there is a multitude of dif- miles an hour for live kilometres: facturer the standard of comfort for 109.06 m.p.b. for five miles, 189.05 which self-respecting owners and that makes all the difference in ferent
and means liminating dazzle, and in this
for ten kilometres. and m.n.l.
users expect. The latest item la the course of a year, and the
m.37.Jt. people who are not above attend respect they were certainly most These speeds are the highest ever men will insist in future years on les-the "rond log." Women as well as lue to them are the people sehr and successful. The veneral Impres only got the best value for money on gained was, however, that made by car with a 750 cc. this useful fitting being supplied out of their mara hut get the most taking them all round, the various engine and constitute new inter- Potions exhibited wont, to show
wirational Class If world records is the equipment. It consists of entia'action as well.
the anti-dazzle devices which
hich The Austin Motor Co. and Mrs. all metal case with a band can clip to the rim of any Extraordinary enthusiasm was were under the control of the Stewart are to be congratulated on steering wheel. From it one can a heiter driving! putting up soch a marvellous per-pull out, as on a roller blind, the shown by the inventors of anti-driver aforted dazzle appliances who took part in light than those which were performance with so small a motor-P an RA. demonstration held on masently of an anti-dazzle nature | car. Mid-summer Common Cambridge.j darire man weak, No fewer than
route card, shopping list, addresses, etc., without needing to stop to search the pockets for that
парог Fittings for comfort in one of necessary
loses 80 as different kinds of anti-duzzle ploted, in 14 days, a 2,774-mile the main features of the Motor often or misleys.
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